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Originally published in
1990, Like Water for
Chocolate (Como agua
para chocolate)
won Laura Esquivel inter-
national acclaim. The film
based on the book, with a
screenplay by Laura Esquivel,
swept the Ariel awards of
the Mexican Academy of Motion
Pictures, winning eleven in
all, and went on to become
the largest grossing foreign
film ever released in the
United States. In 1994
Like Water for
Chocolate won the
prestigious ABBY award,
which is given annually by
the American Booksellers
Association to the book the
members of the organization
most enjoyed hand-selling.
The book has been translated
into thirty languages and
there are over three million
copies in print worldwide.
Ms. Esquivel lives in Mexico.